Unknown author letter to Freeman Barrows - Aug. 31, 1860

New Orleans, Augt 31/[1860] Freeman Barrows Esqe. Your favor of the 16th June last was delivered from the post office, during an absence from our said City, on the 2d of July. I confess that its perusal not only caused surprise, but also afforded relief. The former on the ground that, owing to your silence for more than a year, I had given up all hopes of receiving an answer to any one of the several letters which I had written and forwarded to your address, within a year past. The latter in learning, from you, that your were still among the living and had not, as I infer from your letter, changed your place of residence. Knowing to wit: on this 15 march 1860, that I had received no answer to either of the two or three letters which I had written and forwarded to your address – in the course of some five or sixth months previous; that your last favor was that of the 18 April 1859 enclosing the tax receipt for 1858; unwilling to attribute your silence to supineness or intentional neglect. I concluded in attributing your silence, either to death or removal and thereupon and with a view of ascertaining if you were alive and if so whether you had removed. I addressed, on said 15th March 1860, a letter to the post master of Papinville, in which was enclosed, for you, a duplicate of mine of the 18th. Novr. 1859. On 14 April I recd an answer from Mr F [Frank] F Eddy, in which he informed me that you was in bad health, and resided about a mile from his office – that he would send the enclosed letter, and presumed it would be answered. Having, up to the 1 May last, received no answer from you – being more perplexed than heretofore, by your continued silence, and apprehending the expenses, damages &c that would be incurred by those

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New Orleans, Augt 31/[1860] Freeman Barrows Esqe. Your favor of the 16th June last was delivered from the post office, during an absence from our said City, on the 2d of July. I confess that its perusal not only caused surprise, but also afforded relief. The former on the ground that, owing to your silence for more than a year, I had given up all hopes of receiving an answer to any one of the several letters which I had written and forwarded to your address, within a year past. The latter in learning, from you, that your were still among the living and had not, as I infer from your letter, changed your place of residence. Knowing to wit: on this 15 march 1860, that I had received no answer to either of the two or three letters which I had written and forwarded to your address – in the course of some five or sixth months previous; that your last favor was that of the 18 April 1859 enclosing the tax receipt for 1858; unwilling to attribute your silence to supineness or intentional neglect. I concluded in attributing your silence, either to death or removal and thereupon and with a view of ascertaining if you were alive and if so whether you had removed. I addressed, on said 15th March 1860, a letter to the post master of Papinville, in which was enclosed, for you, a duplicate of mine of the 18th. Novr. 1859. On 14 April I recd an answer from Mr F [Frank] F Eddy, in which he informed me that you was in bad health, and resided about a mile from his office – that he would send the enclosed letter, and presumed it would be answered. Having, up to the 1 May last, received no answer from you – being more perplexed than heretofore, by your continued silence, and apprehending the expenses, damages &c that would be incurred by those